Whats your Favourite Quotes from War Films?

A few here:



Cross of Iron

Captain Stransky: 'All right. I'll do it. I will show you how a Prussian officer fights.'

Sergeant Steiner: 'And I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow.'

A Bridge Too Far

General Roy Urquhart:Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?

 

And Another


Oddball: "To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some sort of weird sandwich, not some nut that takes on three tigers."

 

A Bridge Too Far

General Roy Urquhart:Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?

I think the answer was best, "Can't do any harm, sir"

 

I think the answer was best, "Can't do any harm, sir"
That reply was brilliant And he was right too!

 

Surely Casablanca and "Major Strasser has been shot. Round up the usual suspects."

 

If a Western is classed as a war movie, then out of CB DeMille's The Plainsman, comes my favourite line, "Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do."

And Gram always said there was nothing in the world a cuppa couldn't help.

 

Stalag 17

Harry Shapiro: Hey Schultz, sprechen sie deutsch?

Schultz: Jawohl.

Harry Shapiro: Then droppen sie dead!

 

Believe it or not, it's from Waterloo. When some General type chappy's sitting on his horse, beside Wellington, as they watch the battle rage. (Was it Kenneth Moore? Or was he the one in the Carry On films?)

Anyway, they're sitting there when matey, with just a hint of mild surprise says; " Good lord! I do believe I've just lost my leg. "

Then, after a brief pause, slumps over his horse. Classic!

 

I wonder if this line, or more likely something similar, was actually spoken or thought by men who were there.

"Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today." - Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) Saving Private Ryan

 

The Longest day: Sword beach

Beachmaster: What's the matter lad?
Soldier: The engine won't start sir, full of sea water I think
Beachmaster: My old grandmother used to say, "anything mechanical, give good bash", try it now.

 

Battle of Britain

Robert Shaw: 'Flight- Where are you taking those prisoners?'

Flight: 'To the Officers Mess, Sir'

Robert Shaw: 'Like bloody hell you are, they caused all this mess, get em to clean it up'


Talking about captured Bomber crews after they'd bombed his airfield.

 

If you like memorable quotes go have a look at the IMDB "Casablanca" list:
Casablanca (1942) - Memorable quotes

Ron

 

Nuts!

 

David

Nuts!


If I didn't know you better I would have thought you were referring to my posting which immediately preceeded yours

I take it that the quotation is from "The Battle of the Bulge " ?

Cheers

Ron

 

David



If I didn't know you better I would have thought you were referring to my posting which immediately preceeded yours

I take it that the quotation is from "The Battle of the Bulge " ?

Cheers

Ron


You have it Ron!



WWII officer who said `nuts' to Germans dies

Mon Jan 12, 3:51 pm ET
NEW YORK – Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, a paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer "Nuts!" to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge, has died. He was 93.
Kinnard, a career soldier who in later years was the principal architect of the Army's concept of using helicopters in infantry warfare in Vietnam, died in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 5, his family told The New York Times.
A native of Dallas, Kinnard graduated from West Point in 1939 and spent 30 years in uniform, retiring in 1969.
He parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, with the newly organized 101st Airborne Division and was decorated for heroism during its drive against German forces in the Netherlands.
When Hitler launched a surprise counteroffensive in December, the 101st, then in France, was rushed into action and seized key road junctions at the Belgian town of Bastogne, where the Americans were quickly surrounded by the enemy.
On Dec. 22, Kinnard, then a 29-year-old lieutenant colonel and the division's operations officer, was present when four German couriers arrived at the American lines under a flag of truce with a written demand to surrender in two hours or face annihilation.
Brig. Gen. Anthony McAuliffe, the 101st's artillery chief and acting division commander in the absence of Maj. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, laughed and remarked, "Us surrender? Aw, nuts," and then wondered aloud how he should reply.
As recalled later by himself and other witnesses, Kinnard suggested that McAuliffe tell the Germans "what you just said ... nuts."
McAuliffe scribbled: "To the German commander: Nuts! The American commander."
On the way back to the defense line, a U.S. officer explained to the puzzled Germans that "nuts" meant the same thing as "go to hell."
The paratroopers held against further attacks and four days later the siege was broken by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's tank forces. The massive German counterattack — the last major offensive effort by Hitler's forces — collapsed two weeks later.
In the 1960s, Kinnard, a trained aviator, was a key developer of the Army's helicopter "air assault" concept at Fort Benning, Ga., and first applied it in combat in Vietnam as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
A memorial is planned for March 19 at Fort Myer, Va., according to the Army Times.

WWII officer who said `nuts' to Germans dies - Yahoo! News

 

Donald Pleasance in The Great Escape:

"Afraid this tea's pathetic. Must have used these wretched leaves about twenty times. It's not that I mind so much. Tea without milk is so uncivilized."

 

SCHAFFER: Second rate punk, huh?

SMITH: All I could think of on the spur of the moment.

SCHAFFER: Thanks. That even makes it worse.

 

And back to Casablanca again, on the IMDB Quotes page;

NOT the oft misquoted "Play it again Sam" but the following dialogue

Rick You know what I want to hear.
Sam: [lying] No, I don't.
Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Sam: [lying] Well, I don't think I can remember...
Rick: If she can stand it, I can! Play it!